Gagdad Bob Finds The Blogosphere’s Holy Grail

Gagdad Bob has done what no other blogger has done- he has found the biggest idiot in the blogosphere. In Putting The “Psycho” In Psychoblogging, he identifies the world’s most inept psychoblogger (we would add, ‘and an intellectual impotent’)- and Gagdad Bob’s selection can in no way be contested.

…ever since I started blogging last year, I’ve been looking for a leftist psychoblogger to ridicule when I don’t have anything else to write about, but couldn’t find any.

This morning I found a leftist psychoblog linked to dailykos, Psyche, Science, and Society, run by psychoanalyst Steven Soldz. It is a goldmine of leftist foolishness, cant, and cliché, and you understand in a second why this man would be linked to the breathtakingly infantile dailykos. This blogger vividly demonstrates the axiom that education has nothing to do with wisdom. More often than not, the two are inversely related.

In his “about me” page, Soldz sets the tone, making reference to how the American public has “rallied around a mythic ‘war on terror’” which “is built on a simplistic duality of good versus evil.” In other words, the terrorists are not actually evil. Rather, it is just that we have projected all of our “undesirable characteristics” into the so-called “evil” other. Evidently, it is we who actually want to chop their heads off and murder their children just for the hell of it…

…Apparently, people who project evil are evil, but evil behavior isn’t. So Americans are evil projectors, but the terrorists who slashed the throats of stewardesses and flew airplanes into the Twin towers were not evil. No, it’s just our projection.

Amazingly, Dr. Soldz welcomes the launch of al Jazeera in America, stating that “I, for one, wish them well. I hope they will continue offending the powers-that-be by telling the truths that others suppress.” In other words, Dr. Soldz not only aligns himself with this invaluable propaganda tool of our terrorist enemies, but regards it as a courageous conveyer of suppressed truth. No, people aren’t offended by al Jazeera because — like virtually all of the Arab Muslim world — they are steeped in vile lies about America and Israel. Rather, they are offended because they do not want to hear the suppressed “truth” about Jewish conspiracies and genocidal Americans.

This man is beyond simplistic. He is beyond ignorant. He is even beyond stupid. I have no compunction whatsoever in saying that he is, at the very least, a moral imbecile.

There’s more. Read Gagdad Bob, the Magnificent Knight Templar of the Psychosphere who has uncovered the blogosphere’s Holy Grail.

The Church Of MSM

Over the last few days, we have discussed the state of affairs that purports to be journalism today (see Media, Advertising And The Road To Hell and What’s Good For The Political Goose Has To Be Good For The MSM Gander) . We wanted to expand on the conversation because journalism is one of the few professions whose practitioners are regarded as saintly and above reproach by the public. The much maligned Catholic church has done more to rid itself of their ‘bad apples’ than the MSM have done at cleaning their own house.

To be considered a ‘professional journalist’ today, it is almost an imperative that a graduate of journalism school adopt a secular and particular kind of ideology. It isn’t as if you can’t have another point of view, of course, but if you do, you are suspect as a journalist, or are somehow less than ‘professional.’ In what is great irony, journalists who are identified as ‘different’ are immediately suspected of being less objective and less truthful. The message is clear: if a journalist doesn’t share certain secular or ideological viewpoints, it is assumed that journalist will knowingly deceive the public (in the UK, one editor said that Jewish reporters could not be trusted to report on the Israel-Palestine issue. Apparently, Arab Muslim graduates of the Arafat School Of Journalistic Integrity were models of veracity and decency).

Of course, the vast majority of MSM journalists do not see their own bias for what it really is- a bias. They consider themselves decent and they see themselves as examples of the best of the human condition. The also believe that anyone who disagrees with their worldview is imperfect- and imperfections are bad. Whatever biases they might have can be set aside because they are ‘fair minded’ and compassionate- ideals never to be found in anyone with differing beliefs.

That is no small matter, that worldview, because ‘professional’ journalists believe they are ever out in front of the evolution of human progress. Professional journalists believe it was they who helped shape the education of the masses, liberating those enslaved by religion and liberating morality and ethics from the clutches of restrictive religion or ‘establishment’ ideologies. In ‘libertaing’ the people, journalists bestowed upon themselves the highest of ethics and morals, never to be questioned. The Middle Ages College of Cardinals was replaced by the New Age Editorial Boards. Journalism was to be the newest faith, perfect in every way and ennobled by their pursuit of justice.

Woodward and Berstein became the newest prophets, to be revered and emulated (Woodward (apprantly the ‘Fourth Christ of Ypsilanti) took that a bit too seriously. In his books, he purports to know what politicians are thinking in meetings that never occurred. In the cathedrals of journalism, that of course doesn’t matter, because he ‘meant well’). An entire generation of journalism school graduates would ride off every dawn in the pursuit of the ultimate investigative journalist story that would expose the evil (as they see it), right all wrongs in the world and bring justice to all. ‘Professional’ journalism deliberately adopted a pseudo-religious posture and coupled it with their version of the PC American cowboy spirit (a lot like Marty McFly’s pink western shirt and hightops in Back to the Future III).

So what if a few lives were wrecked? So what if innocents, knowingly hung out to dry, were to spend years in prison- after all the prophets of journalism meant well- and all prophets need sacrificial lambs, willing or otherwise. So what if the truth also becomes a sacrificial lamb?

Professional journalism, in the pursuit of only the truths they see as relevant, have carefully crafted cathedrals and ivory towers for themselves. It is only their version of religion or their version of secularism that matters. The MSM does not tolerate ‘freedom of religion.’ Giving others an equal voice in matters of ethics and morality scares the MSM, because if differing voices were to be regarded as credible and substantive, the stranglehold the media have on our culture would come into question- and that idea is unacceptable to the MSM.

More later.